thy troops like the huge white elephant adorning the host of the celestial king.  On the standard decked with gold, of king Duryodhana, was an elephant adorned with gems.  Tinkling with the sound of a hundred bells, O king, that standard stood upon the excellent car of that hero.  And, O king, thy son, that bull among the Kurus, looked resplendent, O monarch, with that tall standard in battle.  These nine excellent standards stood erect among thy divisions.  The tenth standard seen there was of Arjuna, decked with that huge ape.  And with that standard Arjuna looked highly resplendent, like Himavat with a blazing fire (on its top).  Then many mighty car-warriors, all chastisers of foes, quickly took up their beautiful, bright and large bows for the sake of (resisting) Arjuna.  Similarly, Partha also, that achiever of celestial feats, took up his foe-destroying bow Gandiva, in consequence, O king, of thy evil policy.  Many royal warriors, O king, were then slain in that battle owing to thy fault.  Rulers of men came from different realms invited (by thy sons).  And with them perished many steeds and many elephants.  Then those mighty car-warriors headed by Duryodhana (on one side) and that bull amongst the Pandavas on the other, uttered loud roars and began the encounter.  And the feat that Kunti’s son, having Krishna for his charioteer, achieved there, was highly wonderful, inasmuch as, alone, he encountered fearlessly all those warriors united together.  And that mighty-armed hero looked resplendent as he stretched his bow Gandiva, desirous of vanquishing all those tigers among men for slaying the ruler of the Sindhus.  With his shafts shot in thousands, that tiger among men, viz., Arjuna, that scorcher of foes, made all those warriors invisible (by means of his arrowy showers).  On their side, those tigers among men, those mighty car-warriors, also made Partha invisible by means of their clouds of shafts shot from all sides.  Beholding Arjuna, that bull of Kuru’s race covered by those lions among men with their shafts, loud was the uproar made by thy troops.’

 Section CV

“Dhritarashtra said, ’After Arjuna had got the ruler of the Sindhus within sight, what, O Sanjaya, did the Panchalas, attacked by Bharadwaja’s son, do, encountering the Kurus?’

“Sanjaya said, In the afternoon of that day, O monarch, in the battle that took place between the Panchalas and the Kurus, Drona became, as it were, the stake (for which each fought on to win or lose).  The Panchalas, O sire, desirous of slaying Drona, cheerfully uttered loud roars and shot dense showers of arrows.  Indeed, that encounter between the Panchalas and the Kurus, fierce, awful, and highly wonderful as it was, resembled that in days of yore between the gods and the Asuras.  Indeed, all the Panchalas with the Pandavas, obtaining Drona’s car (within reach) used many mighty weapons, desirous of piercing through his array.  Car-warriors stationed on their cars, causing the earth to shake under them,